Note that I took the phrase "sleep-walking into economic extinction" from Nicholas Denton, whose Gawker Media empire was once worth $150 million. Considering Denton worked for the Financial Times and co-authored All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings (1996), I wonder if he is long collectable books and short the British pound?

"I'm an optimist. I discard all such dark tomorrows. I have faith in man as God and God as man; I believe we'll be immortal, seed the stars and live forever in the flesh of our children. That's my job as a writer -- to show man his basic goodness, to dramatize his struggle up and away from this planet." -- RB